Long story short. Ex-cop files a report that he saw another cop kick a mentally handicapped suspect in the head. He is fired for filing a false report. He snaps, writes a 20 page manifesto and starts killing people. First kills the daughter and future son-in-law of the lawyer who represented him at his hearing. Then he shoots two cops and kills one of them.

Now the LAPD are told to look out for the suspect who is a 6 foot tall, 270 lb. black man in a grey Nissan Titan pick-up. LAPD misidentify two elderly Asian women driving a bright blue Toyota Tacoma as the suspect and open fire. Here is what their truck looked like:

Christopher Walz, you impressed me in Inglorious Basterds. After viewing Django Unchained, I was sold. I have come to the conclusion that you are well on your way to becoming one of the greats if not already and show glimpses of Daniel Day Lewis and Morgan Freeman-esque type qualities of greatness. Trust me when I say that you will be one of the greatest ever.

From "Dorner Unchained" to "Dorner Explained:" NYT ponders whether LAPD had it coming

There haven't been enough wacko shootings so far in 2013, so the air has been slowly leaking from gun control momentum since the Newtown peak. You might think that L.A. lunatic Christopher Dorner would be an excellent example to pump back up the panic over Nuts-With-Guns. But, instead, because Dorner mentioned the R Word, Attention Must Be Paid to his reasons, just as with Connecticut shooter Omar Thornton in 2010.

You want to see the really f***d up part?
Check out this story and watch the video. The still photo in the video shows FAR more bullet holes than the HD photo in the OP's link.

Quote:

The series of mistakes leading up to the incident are now the subject of a department inquiry. The truck the women were driving was not a Nissan Titan like Dorner's, but a Toyota Tacoma. The vehicle was aqua blue, not gray like Dorner’s, the Times reported.
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A lawyer for the women said they did not hear any verbal warning before they were fired on.
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At least seven officers opened fire on the vehicle, law enforcement sources told the Times.

Firing on the right make/model/color of truck without any warning or investigation would be unacceptable. Obviously this is much worse. And now the U.S. police want drones... why use 60+ rounds of ammunition when you can kill innocent Americans with 1 hellfire missile?

They would probably be dead if they had shot back. I do not see how what amounts to suicide-revenge would improve the situation. Do not get me wrong, though, I agree with you that there is an enormous problem here; a problem made worse precisely because behavior which would otherwise be self-preservatory (fighting back when attacked by hostiles with no legitimate grievance against you) becomes instead damning.

I actually believe that we no longer live in a free and fair Republic. I think most of us are under the illusion we are a free people.
Privacy as is defined and expected in our bill of rights and constitution is gone. As is a few other rights.
Yes, I may sound like some member of some Idaho militia but the facts support my view. The government can, has and is monitoring our private communication that was always thought to be sacrosanct.
Other rights are either greatly reduced, gone or can be taken if certain things happen.
We were the last bastion of true freedom. Now they are none.

David Perdue was on his way to sneak in some surfing before work Thursday morning when police flagged him down. They asked who he was and where he was headed, then sent him on his way.

Seconds later, Perdue's attorney said, a Torrance police cruiser slammed into his pickup and officers opened fire; none of the bullets struck Perdue.

His pickup, police later explained, matched the description of the one belonging to Christopher Jordan Dorner — the ex-cop who has evaded authorities after allegedly killing three and wounding two more. But the pickups were different makes and colors. And Perdue looks nothing like Dorner: He's several inches shorter and about a hundred pounds lighter. And Perdue is white; Dorner is black.

In a statement to The Times, the department said: "The circumstances of the incident known to the responding officers would have led a reasonable officer under normal circumstances — and these were far from normal circumstances — to believe that fellow officers were being shot at and that the vehicle traveling toward them posed a serious risk.

"In the split seconds available to them," the statement continued, "action was appropriate to intervene and stop the actions of the driver of that vehicle."

lol, that's right ladies and gentlemen.
When deciding whether or not to use deadly force against an unidentified civilian, the LAPD is bound by the same doctrine as South Park. They have to yell "Look out! It's coming right for us!" and then they're free to open fire. Sure, you've already been stopped and investigated by one of the few rational police on the force, but that's not going to stop the others from "behaving appropriately" by smashing your car and trying to kill you.

Dorner killed obviously innocent people, he is not a good guy. But some of these mad dogs on the LAPD need to be put down before innocent people (or innocent cops) start dying.

Remember that robot dog from Fahrenheit 451 that hunted people by scent and killed them with a poison needle? The future Americans are going to be living with is that dog with wings. It's only a matter of time.

Honestly the entire concept of drones is starting to deeply disturb me; not just what they do, but what they are. They make it too easy. Oh sure, the psychological impacts of participation in violence -- high stress levels, PTSD and the like -- are still present, but the personal risk is not, and something about that rings wrong to me. If killing someone is not worth personally risking your life over, perhaps you shouldn't be doing it; it should be no surprise that when killing becomes so casually easy, although the language used to justify it revolves around "imminent threats" dealt with as a last resort, the reality becomes otherwise.